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Minnesota United’s Argentine forward Joaquin Pereyra says he is among the residents feeling “scared” by the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities and has revealed he now carries his passport and Green Card wherever he goes.
The federal government has deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents to the Twin Cities in large numbers over the past month. Videos and images from Minneapolis have shown those agents grabbing legal residents and U.S citizens, breaking car windows and threatening protestors and observers, leaving many people – and particularly foreign nationals – fearful.
“People are scared. We are, too,” Pereyra said in an interview with Pioneer Press, which was translated from Spanish by club staff. “Fewer and fewer people want to be out on the streets because of what might happen to them.
“(I take my passport and Green Card) whether I’m walking around the neighborhood, at the supermarket, anywhere. Obviously, that doesn’t guarantee me anything because we’ve seen on the news that people who have had their Green Card and passport in their car, or whatever, are still taken away or treated badly.”
Pereyra added that he does not agree with the federal government’s aims and “the way they’re doing it,” and hopes tensions in the region subside “for the good of everyone.”